Minox 35mm Camera Models

MODEL

LENS

FOCUS RANGE

APERTURE

SHUTTER button

mode

BACK LIGHT

TIMER

ISO

snapshot setting

DIMENSION

OZ

battery

special feature

FLASH

RELEASE BUTTON

35 EL (1974)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft to infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

aperture priority

SO 25 - 400

PX27

35 GL (1979)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft to infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

aperture priority

SO 25 - 400

PX27

Minox 35 GT (1981) Golf(1984)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft to infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

aperture priority

10 sec timer

SO 25 - 400

PX27

TC 35 FC 35

Minox 35 PL (1982)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft to infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

program

10 sec timer

SO 25 - 400

PX27

Minox 35 PE (1983)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft to -infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

program

10 sec timer

ISO 25 - 400

5.4x2.4x1.2"

9.8 oz

PX27

built in flash

Minox 35 MB (1985)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft-infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

aperture priority

10 sec timer

ISO 25 - 400

PX27

Minox 35 ML (1985)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft-infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 - 1 sec

aperture priority & Program

2x

10 sec timer

ISO 25 -1600

3.9x2.4x1.3"

6.4 oz

PX28 LITHIUM

memory lock

MF 35 ST MT 35

Minox 35 AL (1987)

COLOR MINAR 35mm/f4.0

Fix focus 5'-infinity

sunny,partly cloudy, cloudly

10 sec timer

some white color

Minox GS-E (1988)

Color Minotar 35mm/f2.8

3ft-infinity

2.8- 16

1/500 to 8sec

aperture priority

2x

10 sec timer

ISO 25 -1600

3.9X2.4X1.2"

7.1 OZ

px27

snap shot

FC 35 ST

Minox GTE (1988)

MC Minoxar 35mm/2.8

2.3ft to infinity

2.8-16

1/500 to 8 sec

aperture priority

2x

10 sec timer

ISO 25-1600

3.9x2.4x1.4"

7.1 oz

PX27 OR 2 CR1/3N

skylight filter

FC-E Flash

Minox 35 GTE GOLDKNOPF (1988)

MC Minoxar 35mm/2.8

2.3ft-infinity

2.8-16

1/500 to 8 sec

aperture priority

2x

10 sec timer

SO 25-1600

3.9x2.4x1.5" include databack

7.6 oz

PX27

skylight filter

MT-35

24k gold

Minox 35 AF (1988)

MINOXAR 32mm/f.3.5

active infrared autofocus

four zones

10 sec timer

Minox 35 M.D.C. (1996)

MC Minoxar 35mm/2.8

2.3ft-infinity

2.8 - 16

1/500 - 1 sec

program & aperture Priority

2x

10 sec timer

ISO 25-1600

4 x2.5x1.4"

7.3 oz

PX27

titanium coated or gold plated

MT 35

Minox 35 GTX (1997)

MC Minoxar 35mm/2.8

2.3ft-infinity

2.8-16

1/500 to 8 sec

aperture priority

2x

10 sec timer

ISO 25 - 3200

green dot at f8 4.8m

3.9x2.4x1.4"

7.1 oz

TWO CR1/3N

skylight filter DX CODE

FC-E Flash

Minox 35 GTS (1998)

MC Minoxar 35mm/2.8

2.3ft-infinity

2.8-16

1/500 to 8 sec

aperture priority

2x

10 sec timer

ISO 25 - 3200

green dot at f8 4.8m

3.9x2.4x1.4"

7.1 oz

TWO CR1/3N

skylight filter DX CODE

FC-S Flash

AF -mini (1994)

MINOXAR 34mm f3.5

4'-infinty manual close up 20"

AF

4.5x.25x1.5"

CD 70 (1996)

Minotar 35-70mm

2.'-infinity

AF

4.6x2.6x1.6"

8.1

CR 123A

CD 112 (1996)

Minotar 38-112 6 element 2 group

2.3'-infinity

AF

25-3200

4.7x2.7x2.1"

8.5

CR 123A

CD 29 (1997)

MINOTAR 29mm f4

AF

50-3200

CD 140 (1999)

Minotar 38-140mm

2.6'-inf

AF

10 sec

CR 123A

mid roll rewind panoramic switch

MINOX GT-E

Features of Minox GT-E:

• Bright viewfinder with shutter speeds at right hand side.
• Multple coated Minoxar 35mm/F2.8 (Leitz Elmar type lens ).
• Build in skylight filter.
• Shutter speed 8 sec to 1/500 sec.
• 10s self timer.
• Film speed iso 25/15 to 1600/33, manual;
• flash sync hot shoe, automatically switch to 1/125 flash sync.
• Tripod thread
• cable release thread
• Dimension 10x6.1 x3.4cm
• Weight 200 g.
  
  -- Anonymous, February 14, 2000

Answers

The pioneer in compact 35mm camera was the made in Germany Rollei 35, first appeared in 1966. A that time, Rollei 35 was the smallest full frame 35mm camera. It started a whole new trend of compact camera. In 1974 Minox joined in with its Minox 35 EL. Minox 35 EL was a neat design, it has a shape unlike any SLR or range finder camera of the time-- it looked more like a diminiitive bellow camera, pull down a cover, pull out the lens, exceopt there was not bellow. One revolution step taken by Minox was the use of glass fibre enforced Macrolon ( a high strength plastic ) in Minox 35 EL body,and started a powerful trend of plastic camera bodies, instead the all metal and heavy camera bodies. The Minox 35 series of camera was an instant success, it was much lighter then Rollei 35. Minox 35 series and Rollei 35 series coexisted for about two decades.

In the early 80s, there was a Minox immitation: Contax T, its pull out lens is fashioned after Minox 35mm camera.

About the same time, there was also Olympus XA series pocket cameras.

Rollei 35 series ceased production in 1996, shortly after Samsung of South Korea took over Rollei

Now in the arena of pocketable manual viewfinder full frame 35mm camera, Minox has outlast Rollei, Contax and Olympus, as the only one left standing .

The current production models are GTE, GTX(and its recent replacment ) GTS.

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2000